The rise of AI porn and expectations of relationships.
What if porn is wholly created by an algorithm? In that case, whether it’s obscene, ethical, or safe becomes secondary to What does it mean for porn to be “real”.
An early tech adopter, porn was an industry built on desires, greed, and fantasy, propped up by performances and pharmaceuticals. Its methods and media varied widely, but the one constant was its messy humanity. Until now.
The hallucinations of a machine trained on a million pornographic images —posted not in the dark corners of the internet but on social media.
In September of 2023, the small Spanish town of Almendralejo was forced to confront this. Twenty girls returned from summer break to find naked selfies they’d never taken being passed around at school. Boys had rendered the images using an AI “nudify” app with just a few euros and a yearbook photo. The girls were bullied and blackmailed, suffered panic attacks and depression. The youngest was 11. The school and parents were at a loss. By the end of the school year, similar cases had spread to Australia, Quebec, London, and Mexico. Then explicit AI images of Taylor Swift flooded social media. If she couldn’t stop this, a 15-year-old from Michigan stood no chance.
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SOURCE MATERIAL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/26/1096526/ai-sex-relationships-porn/ by Lou Herrera. August 26, 2024
Leo Herrera is a writer and artist. He explores how tech intersects with sex and culture on Substack at Herrera Words.
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